Boys
Lackey 80, La Plata 48
Thomas Stone 55, Northern 48
North Point 75, Great Mills 66
Chopticon 88, Patuxent 74
Leonardtown 55, Calvert 40
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Girls
North Point 46, Great Mills 42
Northern 54, Thomas Stone 37
Kelly Fagan scored a team-high 15 points and knocked down four three-pointers, while Shelby Matullo added 10 for the Patriots.
Lackey 53, La Plata 35
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Basketball: Results from 1/30
Posted on 30 January 2009 by .
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Basketball: Result from 1-29
Posted on 29 January 2009 by .
Girls
Leonardtown 59, Huntingtown 46
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Hockey: La Plata 4, Huntingtown 2
Posted on 28 January 2009 by .
By Andy States
SMAC Content Manager
The game still scoreless in the later stages of the first period, Huntingtown’s Kirby Kinslow skated in on La Plata goalie Dylan Paquette and flicked a shot into the net for a 1-0 lead.
After dropping a 9-3 decision to Huntingtown earlier in the season, a game that ‘was actually a closer game than that sounds’ according to Paquette, the La Plata goalie was determined to shut down the Hurricanes after that first goal in the Wednesday-night rematch.
“I felt like the first one was my fault,” he said of Kinslow’s marker. “I know he broke through and was alone, but I was a little too deep.
“But it was only 1-0. We knew if we put some pressure on and got a few breaks we were confident we could get the goal back.”
The Warriors got the goal back, and then some. Paquette turned away 34 shots on the night, not allowing another Huntingtown goal until late in the third period, and La Plata scored three second-period goals to take command in a 4-2 win over Huntingtown at the Capital Clubhouse in Waldorf.
“Dylan played a great game,” La Plata captain Ross Eagles said. “Everybody skated hard. The freshmen really stepped up big. We got a couple goals early and that really helped put a little pressure on [Huntingtown].”
After the first period ended with Huntingtown (7-2) in front 1-0, La Plata (6-1) scored two quick goals in the second period’s first two minutes to surge in front. Gunnar Wilson-Schultz jammed in the first goal from just in front of the net 1 minute 15 seconds into the period, while Zack Krahling scored the go-ahead goal on a slap shot less than a minute later.
On the power-play later in the period, a face-off win by Ty Kyser sent the puck back to Kevin O’Leary, whose shot found its way into the net for a 3-1 lead at the end of two. Kyser added a goal in the third period to push the lead to 4-1. Mitchell Fink scored at the 10:27 mark to pull Huntingtown back to within 4-2, but the Hurricanes eventually suffered their second loss of the season.
“I key for us was the speed of play,” La Plata coach Mark Eagles said. “We played as fast a game as we’ve played all year. We got to the puck quick, made quick decisions with it, backchecked hard. Our pace of play was by far the key for our team.
“I think it caught the other team off guard. I don’t think they expected us to come out and play that fast. I don’t think they expected us to forecheck as hard as we did and get on them as quick as we did. And we got good goaltending play.”
That goaltending play was vital, as the Hurricanes outshot the Warriors 36-25 on the night.
“They moved the puck really well,” Paquette said of the Hurricanes. “A lot of them played together before. We just had to make sure we cut off the passes.”
The win sets La Plata up for a chance to secure the top spot in the regular-season standings of the Maryland Scholastic Hockey League’s Southern Division. La Plata and Northern are tied in the loss column with one, apiece, though La Plata defeated Northern head-to-head by a 6-4 count on Dec. 1. Northern (8-1) still has a game left with Huntingtown, scheduled for Feb. 6, while La Plata has a pair of games remaining with St. Mary’s Ryken on Monday and Wednesday of next week.
“We’re playing the same team. It’s kind of a good thing,” Paquette said. “We’re confident we can beat the team both times. We’re not going to take them lightly, though.”
La Plata 4, Huntingtown 2
H 1 0 1
L 0 3 1
First period
H – Kinslow (Billman), 9:54
Second period
L – Wilson-Schultz, 1:15
L – Krahling (Reece), 1:57
L – O’Leary (pp) (Kyser), 14:06
Third period
L – Kyser (Wilson-Shultz, Lawson), 5:34
H – M. Fink (K. Fink), 10:27
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Altered States Blog 2
Posted on 25 January 2009 by .
ALTERED STATES
JAN. 25, 2009
OK, I guess it’s finally time I get this done. A couple of weeks back it was decided that we all write blogs and people kind of got together to come up with catchy names for them. ‘Altered States’ — funny, right? About as funny as blowing up my picture on the banner to ridiculous proportions — yeaaah, good stuff.
Most of the other content managers have written a couple blogs, but the Eagles’ loss to Arizona last week sapped me of the ambition. But, that particular team leaving me disappointed at the end of the season isn’t exactly a new thing, so I’ll just be thankful the Phils got it done and move on. I’ll plan to try to get a new blog up every weekend, so here’s to hoping the Flyers have a great spring and I’ll have a lot to say.
Busy week, huh? The inauguration pretty much stopped things early in the week. Anybody go? At least one of my co-workers ventured downtown for the event. After talking about the Phillies WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP parade (which I had waited a lifetime for but had to miss because it was on a Friday and I had football to cover) with some of my friends up that way (who generally said the day was a nightmare with a couple minutes of cheering mixed in), though, I decided to watch at home.
Not that it was for the warmth and comfort of my own home — my wife is from the Midwest and thinks it’s supposed to be cold everywhere in January, and that includes inside the house. Seriously, when I wake up in the morning I go outside to warm up. But, in a nutshell, I stayed home. No matter where you were, though, it was a historic day and a great day to be an American.
Now on to SMAC stuff …
First things first, this has been a remarkably fun season to watch in terms of the basketball in the conference. Last year I was convinced that the league as a whole was as good as it’s been at any point over the past six or seven years. Stone came within an eyelash of winning the boys 4A state title, and Lackey wasn’t far off in the 3A. Even if the season doesn’t end with the same or better results, this year I think the conference may be even better.
The upper tier on the boys side goes about six or seven deep. Lackey and Stone still have to be looked upon as the teams to beat, but one really does get the sense that anyone can beat anyone else. I can’t wait to see the Lackey-Stone rematch on Feb. 6, but there are plenty of good matchups down the stretch — just makes me wish the schedule was spread out a little more so I could see more of them.
This coming Friday features the matchup of the season on the girls side, with Great Mills traveling to North Point. Since a Dec. 10 loss at Wise, Great Mills, still unbeaten in conference play, has reeled off 10 straight wins by an average of nearly 21 points a game.
North Point, also unbeaten in SMAC, has won eight in a row since an opening-round loss to Bladensburg at the Holiday Hoops tournament. In the six SMAC games the Eagles have played since the tourney, they have won by an average of 24 points a game.
These teams have been on a collision course all year. Great Mills has stood at the top of the conference for the past several years and likely will remain there with a win on Friday. North Point’s girls have yet to defeat the Hornets, so Friday night should be a good one.
Lastly, the photo was provided by Jerry Ballengee, who many of you have no doubt seen taking pictures at Lackey sporting events through the years. On the left, with the camera, is Gary Smith, the subject of the last blog on this page, photographing the Great Mills-Lackey girls game on Jan. 5.
See ya’ next week.
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Basketball: Results from 1/23
Posted on 24 January 2009 by .
Boys
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Northern 56, Leonardtown 42
North Point 88, Patuxent 71
Stone 69, McDonough 39
Huntingtown 46, La Plata 42
Chopticon 64, Calvert 40
Urbana 67, Great Mills 51
Lackey 71, Westlake 68
Girls
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Leonartown 53, Northern 36
Northern senior Kelly Fagan celebrated her birthday by scoring a team-high 16 points in a losing cause.
North Point 66, Patuxent 27
McDonough 40, Stone 34
Huntingtown 56, La Plata 46
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Basketball: Results from 1-21
Posted on 21 January 2009 by .
Boys
Huntingtown 74, North Point 60
Thomas Stone 88, Great Mills 38
McDonough 64, Calvert 36
Chopticon 66, La Plata 37
Girls
North Point 54, Huntingtown 46
Brittany Baker scored 20 points and hauled in 11 rebounds to lead the Eagles to the win on the road. Robyn Parks also contributed a double-double with an 11-point, 11-rebound effort. Tiara Butler scored eight and had 12 rebounds. Savannah Hardy had 16 points to lead the Hurricanes, while Kaula Jacks scored 15.
Lackey 59, Northern 35
Stephanie Breitenbach led the Patriots with 16 points.
Great Mills 61, Thomas Stone 31
Chopticon 48, La Plata 40
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Basketball: Results from 1/16
Posted on 17 January 2009 by .
Boys
Lackey 57, Leonardtown 45
Northern 61, Calvert 50
North Point 78, La Plata 67
McDonough 90, Patuxent 87
Great Mills 45, Huntingtown 42
Girls
Great Mills 63, Huntingtown 39
North Point 62, La Plata 36
Leonardtown 50, Lackey 35
Calvert 53, Northern 36
Kelly Fagan led the Patriots with 10 points in a losing cause. Larissa Pitrat scored 9.
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Wrestling: La Plata 44, Huntingtown 18
Posted on 13 January 2009 by .
By Andy States
SMAC Content Manager
It was there for just a second if a person let their mind wander on Tuesday night.
After Huntingtown’s Joey Rice upset La Plata’s Daniel Brannon by a 4-2 count in the night’s 119-pound bout, the visiting Warriors’ lead stood at just 21-15 and, with exactly half of the night’s matches still to be contested, for a brief moment one could envision the possibility of someone knocking La Plata off its Southern Maryland Athletic Conference perch.
La Plata, which in recent years has dominated the conference and, in all reality, the state, looked vulnerable if only briefly. But, still ahead by just six two matches later, the Warriors received a boost from an unexpected source. Nick Romero upset the Hurricanes’ Nick Higgins in a convincing 13-6 decision at 135 to trigger a five-match run that ended with La Plata 44-18 winners over Huntingtown.
“[The 119 match] was a disappointing loss for Daniel and that was one we kind of expect im to win about every time he goes out, and they the same with Higgins,” La Plata coach Todd Sharp said. “[Romero’s win] really took their crowd out of it.
“He’s probably the hardest-working kid in our room. The other guys see it and they see what happens whenever you put that kind of work in.”
“I don’t really know,” Romero said of how he was able to earn the win, “but most of the stuff I’ve done I’ve practiced over and over and it became instinct. I just knew what to do when it happened.”
Following Romero’s win, Chase Ursiti took the 140 match by decision, while Joey Higgs (145) and Brent Mowry (152) won the next two matches by major decision. Nick Houser then ended the night with an exclamation point, pinning Huntingtown’s Mitchell Lowery in the second period of the 160-pound match to cap the night for La Plata (8-0, 6-0).
All in all, Sharp thought it was the best performance of the season for La Plata, which has not lost a regular-season match to a SMAC opponent since the 2003-04 season. Despite the success over the past few years, the Warriors are inexperienced in spots in the lineup, particularly up top. But, as has been the case thus far this year, the team found a way to battle through it, and even picked up a pin courtesy of Jon Boarman in the heavyweight bout.
“We also know that Huntingtown is well-coached. They have a good team and we were ready,” Sharp said. “We were expecting a good match and that’s probably the best, I think, we’ve wrestled yet.
“The whole point is you always want to keep getting better. If you’re not getting better either the guys aren’t working hard enough or the coaches aren’t doing their job. That’s the best we’ve looked so far.”
The match was the only scheduled action of the week for Huntingtown (4-2, 2-2), which competed the past two weekends at the Arundel and South River tournaments.
“A couple guys stepped it up,” Huntingtown coach Terry Green said. “We’re coming off two long weekends and we’ve got to hit it hard. That’s our only match this week. Some guys did. Some guys didn’t.”
Rice’s win over Brannon was a clear highlight, while Markus Jarboe took a 3-2 decision from John Thomas at 130. David Young won by fall at 215 for the Hurricanes, while Peter Athens, who has destroyed everything in his path in the season thus far, won by forfeit at 189.
For Rice, the win over Brannon avenged previous losses dating back to their respective junior league careers.
“Before, Brannon used to beat me in youth league,” Rice said, “so I knew I was going against a good wrestler. I just went out and tried my hardest and I ended up winning.”
Huntingtown is slated to be back in action next Tuesday at Lackey against the Chargers and the North Point Eagles.
The match against Huntingtown in the books, La Plata now prepares for its third trip to the Mount Mat Madness tournament, always one of the toughest tournaments in the state and arguably the most challenging part of the Warriors’ schedule. The tournament will push the younger members of the team to the limit and, hopefully, prepare the team for another run at what it hopes will be another successful postseason down the road.
“It will be a good measuring stick for a lot of our guys,” Sharp said. “A lot of guys will go two-and-out, probably. Still, you go up there and you see that caliber of wrestling and you learn a lot just by watching and you try to emulate what some of the best guys do. It’s a good experience for us any way you look at it, I think. It will be quite a challenge and hopefully we can be respectable.”
La Plata 44, Huntingtown 18
171 Keith (L) 7-0 Russell
189 Athens (H) by forfeit
215 Young (H) pinned Keeves, 2:45
285 Boarman (L) pinned Murphy, 3:59
103 Dull (L) by forfeit
112 Jennings (L) pinned Redding, 3:08
119 Rice (H) 4-2 Brannon
125 Garrow (L) 5-1 George
130 Jarboe (H) 3-2 Thomas
135 Romero (L) 13-6 Higgins
140 Ursiti (L) 8-2 Conto
145 Higgs (L) 12-0 Barcenas
152 Mowry (L) 10-2 Rowe
160 Houser (L) pinned Lowery, 2:51
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Spring Sports Information
Posted on 09 January 2009 by .
Spring sports tryouts will begin on Saturday, February 28th. The pre-season meeting is Thursday, February 19th at 7:00PM. Anyone trying out for a spring sport should attend the meeting. Eligibility for spring sports is based on the 2nd quarter grades and attendance.
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Wrestling: La Plata sweeps Northern, Great Mills
Posted on 06 January 2009 by .
By Andy States
SMAC Content Manager
Talking with La Plata’s Brent Mowry after his team’s wins over Northern and Great Mills on Tuesday night, one may not have had the distinct impression that the Warriors dominated on the scoreboard.
While pleased with the team’s wins, the thoughts were more about how the team needed to progress. This, after La Plata defeated Great Mills 57-21 and later dispatched the host Northern Patriots 48-21.
“I feel like our lower weights are doing well, but we could do better,” said Mowry, the team’s 152-pounder. “I think in the middle we could do better.”
Such is life for the Warriors, who with their recent history have set the bar high. Over the past three seasons, La Plata (6-0, 5-0) have earned a pair of 4A/3A state dual and tournament titles each, and have not lost a regular season match in-conference since 2004. And, with an early-season start that has included a Lackey tournament title and a runaway win at Glenelg amonst the early-season highlights, La Plata has that look again. But that’s not to say there aren’t new challenges the team has to overcome.
In the upper weights the Warriors are relatively inexperienced, and have thus far been without the services of Alex Ingagliato, who was a state placer at 215 pounds a year ago. The team also was faced with the task of replacing state champions Jake Shilling and Tanner Shaffer in the lineup. But through everything, the Warriors are still unbeaten and won handily on Tuesday night.
Against Great Mills (6-7, 0-4), La Plata picked up pins in seven matches, with Dylan Dull (103), Mike Garrow (125), Johnny Thomas (130), Nick Romero (135), Chase Ursiti (140), Joey Higgs (145) and Nick Houser (160) doing the honors. Mowry added a 9-3 decision over Great Mills’ James Monda to a couple of forfeits for the eventual winning margin. Andrew Bogdan (171) took a tight 6-5 decision from Mitchell Keith to account for the Hornets’ first win against the Warriors, while Andrew Lopez earned a fall at 189 and Aaron Rodenhizer did the same in the heavyweight encounter.
The Warriors won by fall in another six matches in the nightcap, with Mowry, Houser, Keith, Garrow, Romero and heavyweight Jon Boarman decking their respective opponents to lead the team to the win over Northern.
“I wasn’t real happy. Some of the kids wrestled well, but we’ve got a lot of work to do, that’s for sure,” La Plata coach Todd Sharp said. “We got a lot to work on, but overall I was pretty pleased.”
The Warriors will receive a boost soon, as Ingagliato expects to be back on the mat in the coming week to help solidify the team’s upper weights.
Northern (7-6, 2-2) came out victorious in two of the higher profile bouts of the night in its match against La Plata. Eric Stubblefield and Quentin Leadbeter, both champions in last weekends prestigious Arundel tournament, earned respective wins against La Plata’s Dylan Dull and Daniel Brannon.
Stubblefield topped Dull by a 14-4 major decision at 103. At 119, Brannon scored with the first takedown against Leadbeter, but later gave up a point on a stall call and eventually came out on the downside of the decision after a third-period takedown by Leadbeter put the Northern grappler in front.
“I knew it was going to be a tough match going against La Plata,” Leadbeter said. “I had to bring my ‘A’ game.”
Stubblefield was still riding high off of his championship at Arundel, which was the wrestler’s first tournament title.
“It my first tournament win so it was a good experience,” he said. “To get it in the Arundel tournament was a great feeling.”
Northern defeated Great Mills 43-33 in the opening match of the tri-meet. Great Mills led 33-21 after Rodenhizer won by fall in the heavyweight bout. But the Patriots won the next four matches — a Stubblefield pin at 103 and a Leadbeter major decision at 125 sandwiching two forfeit wins — to come back for the victory.
Northern hosts its annual Patriot Classic tournament this coming Friday and Saturday.
Northern 43, Great Mills 33
130 Treasure (N) pinned Skibicki, :49
135 Kosewicz (G) pinned Rawlings, 2:32
140 Fanton (N) 9-6 Norris
145 Williams (N) pinned M. Bogdan, 3:02
152 Monda (G) pinned Reems, 1:39
160 Anderson (G) 10-3 Pasqualle
171 A. Bogdan (G) pinned Cranford, 2:45
189 Kopiske (N) pinned Lopez, 3:51
215 Bailey (G) pinned Crouch, 1:24
285 Rodenizer (G) pinned Murphy, 1:59
103 Stubblefield (N) pinned Brooks, :57
112 Croft (N) won by forfeit
119 Wilson (N) won by forfeit
125 Leadbeter (N) 13-3 Reilly
La Plata 57, Great Mills 21
135 Romero (L) pinned Kosewicz, 2:3o9
140 Ursiti (L) pinned Norris, 3:09
145 Higgs (L) pinned M. Bogdan, 3:40
152 Mowry (L) 9-3 Monda
160 Houser (L) pinned Anderson, 1:26
171 A. Bogdan (G) 6-5 Keith
189 Lopez (G) pinned Keeve, 5:20
215 Bailey (G) won by forfeit
285 Rodenizer (G) pinned Boarman, 1:20
103 Dull (L) pinned Brooks, :45
112 Jennings (L) won by forfeit
119 Brannon (L) won by forfeit
125 Garrow (L) pinned Wilson, 1:57
130 Thomas (L) pinned Skibicki, 1:12
La Plata 48, Northern 21
140 Ursiti (L) 14-3 Fanton
*145 Williams (N) 8-1 Higgs
152 Mowry (L) pinned Reems, 4:32
160 Houser (L) pinned Pasqualle, 1:38
171 Keith (L) pinned Cranford, 1:26
189 Kopiske (N) pinned Keeve, 3:02
215 Crouch (N) by forfeit
285 Boarman (L) pinned Murphy, 1:42
103 Stubblefield (N) 14-4 Dull
112 Jennings (L) 14-1 Croft
119 Leadbeter (N) 4-2 Brannon
125 Garrow (L) pinned Wilson, 3:39
130 Thomas (L) 15-0 Treasure
135 Romero (L) pinned Rawlings, 4:24
*Both teams deducted one team point for unsportsmanlike conduct
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